it is essential that a larger hospital be provided without delay and located upon the higher ground where all recent extensions of the institution have been made.

The coal pockets at the power plant now require enlargement; the capacity originally contemplated a much smaller institution, but as the power and light plant has been added to, additions to the coal pockets are necessary and a new boiler must be added to the present battery.

The laundry is now much too small. When there were 150 inmates the equipment was adequate, although the arrangement in the laundry was not then satisfactory. At the present time there are over 300 inmates in the reformatory and the ultimate capacity has been established at 500. With the additions proposed, and a new boiler which is needed, the laundry should be sufficient for the maximum capacity.

Cottage No. 8 will be ready for its furniture in the early part of 1910, and an appropriation should be made for the purchase of the necessary equipment. In addition to these needs, a new conduit must be constructed, and repairs and equipment be provided

for.

This Board recommends for the New York State Reformatory for Women at Bedford the following appropriations or so much thereof as may be necessary:

For a hospital building....

For steam conduits, piping and outside connections..

For coal pockets....

For a new boiler and additions to the laundry

For cement walks on the new campus.

For furnishings for new cottage No. 8.

For repairs and equipment. . . .

$33,000

13,000

6,600

2,500

500

1,200

1,500

For a new boiler in the general boiler house.
For a new conduit .

3,000

3,400

SOCIETY FOR THE REFORMATION OF JUVENILE
DELINQUENTS IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK,
USUALLY KNOWN AS "THE HOUSE OF

REFUGE," RANDALL'S ISLAND,
NEW YORK CITY.

Established 1824.

This institution has capacity for 850 inmates. The number of boys present October 1, 1908, was 717, and 476 were admitted during the year, making the total number under care 1,193. During the year 575 were discharged, leaving the number present September 30, 1909, 618. The average number during the year was 680, and the average weekly cost of support, including the value of home and farm products consumed, $4.86; excluding this value, $4.34.

The receipts during the year ending September 30, 1909, were: From cash balance of the previous year, $1,988; from special appropriations, $6,896.83; from deficiency appropriations, $4,000; from general appropriations, $140,000; from all other sources, including $7,987.50 from the board of education, New York City, $8,188.75; total, $161,073.58.

The ordinary expenditures for the year were: For salaries of officers, wages and labor, $73,989.49; for provisions, $41,699.09; for household stores, $3,254.95; for clothing, $15,135.54; for fuel and light, $10,700.94; for hospital and medical supplies, $567.12; for transportation and traveling expenses of officers and inmates, $1,533.25; for shop, farm and garden supplies, $3,809. 41; for remittance to State Treasurer, $201.25; for all other ordinary expenses, $2,987.68; total ordinary expenditures, $153,878.72.

The extraordinary expenditures were $6,349.75 for extraordinary repairs, making the aggregate expenditures for the year $160,228.47, and the cash balance at the close of the year $845.11.

Of the expenditures for maintenance during the year, 48.2 per cent. was for salaries, wages and labor, 27.1 per cent. for provisions, 2.1 per cent. for household stores, 9.9 per cent. for clothing, 6.9 per cent. for fuel and light, .4 of 1 per cent. for hospital and medical supplies, 1 per cent. for transportation and traveling ex

.

penses, 2.5 per cent. for shop, farm and garden supplies, and 1.9 per cent. for all other ordinary expenses.

Chapter 432, Laws of 1909 (Appropriation Bill), appropriated for maintenance of and rewards to inmates and repairs and betterments of tools and equipment and furniture, and for necessary tools to properly conduct the trade school and common schools and military system, and photographing of inmates, $156,000. Chapter 433, Laws of 1909 (Supply Bill), appropriated from refund moneys, for maintenance, $10,000.

Chapter 461, Laws of 1900 (Special Appropriation Bill), ap-. propriated for repairs and equipment, $10,000.

The maintenance appropriation amounted to $166,000, and the special appropriation was $10,000, making the total available, $176,000.

The House of Refuge of the Society for the Reformation of Juvenile Delinquents of the City of New York, on Randall's Island, remains in the same condition substantially as at the time of the last annual report of this board. No extensions have been made to the buildings nor have there been changes in the methods of training or discipline.

The New York State Training School for Boys, located on Yorktown Heights, Westchester county, will, when opened, provide for the delinquent boys of the city of New York, and at the new institution conditions will be more satisfactory and the possibility of reformation more certain. The results accomplished at the State Agricultural and Industrial School at Industry, near Rochester, are an indication of what may reasonably be expected of the New York State Training School for Boys, and for this reason the development of the new institution should be as rapid as possible. Each month's delay in opening the new State Training School means the loss of opportunity by boys who must, under present circumstances, be committed to the House of Refuge on Randall's Island.

This Board anticipates an early opening of the New York State Training School for Boys, and the Legislature should provide for only such repairs in the buildings on Randall's Island as are absolutely necessary, and the same policy should continue as long as the Refuge must be maintained. Money invested in permanent

improvements will be of little service to the State and therefore the New York State Training School for Boys should hereafter have the full benefit of generous appropriations for permanent buildings and equipment.

For this institution the State Board of Charities recommends that $10,000 be appropriated for repairs and equipment, and $150,000 for maintenance, making the total appropriation approved, $160,000.

NEW YORK STATE TRAINING SCHOOL FOR BOYS, YORKTOWN HEIGHTS, WESTCHESTER CO.

Established 1904.

No progress was made toward the opening of this important institution during the year owing to the fact that no appropriations were available. The Commission in charge of the site made a full report to the Legislature of 1909 as required by law and presented in detail the general plans for the erection of buildings, the necessary equipment and the method proposed for the reception of delinquent boys. This report was published in the Board's last annual report as an appended paper.

The general plans for training delinquents recommended by the Commission have received the unanimous approval of men and women in the United States and foreign lands interested in reformatory work and best qualified to pass upon the subject. This unanimity of opinion reflects credit upon the Commission, and shows the wisdom of the recommendations made heretofore by the Board that training schools should be established for juvenile delinquents, and that the methods in such institutions. should represent the new humane and scientific views which regard delinquency as the result of environment and ignorance.

The State Agricultural and Industrial School at Industry, in Monroe county, has been developed in accordance with these views and upon the general plans proposed for the new institution. The success of the cottage system and the new methods of training at Industry fortified the opinion of this Board that there will be equal success at the New York State Training School for Boys. It is proposed to place each cottage in charge of a supervisor and a matron who, with the group of boys assigned to them, will con

stitute a family. A large measure of liberty will be allowed the boys and their interest will be quickened by this and the realization that they are not in a prison but in a training school and home. In every way it is proposed to make their environment uplifting, and the natural desire to do things from which valuabie results are apparent will be encouraged; their life will thus become wholesome and their minds will develop under the stimulus of a constantly brightening future.

The State Board of Charities recommends for this institution the following appropriations, or so much thereof as may be

necessary:

For the erection, alteration, repair or improvement of buildings and plant, $636,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary; of the foregoing amount $100,000 should be made immediately available, $36,000 of which or so much thereof as necessary to be for the construction and improvement, under the supervision of the State Highway Commission, of a road through the site of the New York State Training School for Boys, and therefrom to the State highway from Peekskill to Yorktown Heights -and the sum of $30,000, or so much thereof as may be needed, to be for the construction of a spur track to connect the institution with the New York Central Railroad near Yorktown Heights.

The remainder of the appropriation recommended at this time may be divided into two parts, one of which, $236,000, to be available October 1, 1910, and the other, $300,000, to be available October 1, 1911.

SYRACUSE

STATE INSTITUTION FOR FEEBLEMINDED CHILDREN, SYRACUSE, ONONDAGA

COUNTY.

Established 1851.

The institution has capacity for 548 inmates. The number of inmates October 1, 1908, was 555, and 80 were admitted during the year, making the total number under care, 635. During the year, 78 were discharged and 1 died, leaving 556 on the rolls of the institution September 30, 1909. The average number present during the year was 518, and the average weekly cost of support,